Pulitzer Arts Tours
INFORMATION
Manager: Lacey Kirkwood
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Led Tours through:
"Delcy Morelos: Interwoven"
"On Earth"
"Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis"
"Sarah Crowner: Around Orange"
"The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550"
"Faye HeavyShield: Confluences"
"Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes"
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2022 - 2024
FELLOWSHIP OVERVIEW
At the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Museum Educators are passionate students who bring diverse perspectives to the local St. Louis community. As part of our year-long Museum Educators Program, these dedicated individuals enhance their interdisciplinary research, public speaking, and professional skills while engaging with art and the public in meaningful ways.
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Part of the inaugural fellowship group, I served as a fellow for two years, becoming a senior fellow in my second year. In my role as a senior fellow, I helped with training and acclimating our new cohort to the program.
TOURS PROVIDED
It's Not Enough to be Busy, So Are the Ants
03/2024 - 08/2024
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”
— Henry David Thoreau
Inspired by the Pulitzer’s exhibitions, Delcy Morelos: Interwoven and On Earth, “It’s Not Enough to be Busy, So Are the Ants” explores the relationship between humans and nature. With the rise of skyscrapers and technology, the world has increasingly become separate from nature; diminishing our collective experience appreciating the natural world. What have we lost in our quest to advance the world? What have we destroyed? As such, this exhibition seeks to reconnect humans to nature. Beginning with an immersive experience with Morelos’ cinnamon-scented Earthly Weaving, “It’s Not Enough to be Busy” will guide viewers to explore the Pulitzer through the lens of another: the mighty ant. In embracing the sensations—smell, sight, and sound—and weaving through depictions of our natural world through art, viewers will attune themselves and their human sensibilities alongside the natural world. In reuniting the human spirit with the animal kingdom, in rekindling the relationship between man and animal, this tour will allow viewers to re-examine and bring new delight to the museum experience: one that expands the holistic experience of enjoyment.
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Artwork discussed:
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Rivane Neuenschwander, in collaboration with Cao Guimarães, “Quarta Feira de Cinzas”
Delcy Morelos, "Earthly Weaving" (2023-2024)
Delcy Morelos, Untitled (1998)
Delcy Morelos, Untitled (2003)
Who Am We?
09/2023 - 02/2024
Drawing from the Pulitzer's exhibitions Sarah Crowner: Around Orange and Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis, “Who Am We?” will explore and question the notion of art. What is art? What makes something art? Does art begin with material, or must it be transformed into something greater in order to be "museum worthy"? In this tour, we will question if art must be quantitated to the material used; if art is something of narrow perception or broad and fully encompassing. How does Crowner's use of raw, non-traditional canvases impact the perception of her art? What makes concrete a simple material and corinthian columns a call back to classical civilizations?
Reflecting on material, craft, and process, we will ask big questions: is artwork a final product? Or is it something greater?
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Artwork discussed:
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Sarah Crowner, Untitled (Around Orange), 2023
Unknown, Terracotta Brick
​West End Hotel relief panel, 1891
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Identity: Lost and Found
03/2023 - 08/2023
Identity: Lost and Found explores the juxtaposition of the artist and artistic identity in the Pulitzer’s two current exhibitions “Faye Heavyshield: Confluences” and “The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550.” Through the tour, we will track the continuity and change of the artist and their processes from the Medieval to contemporary period. Paralleling and discussing the agency of the artist, we will focus on both exhibitions concurrently, spotlighting Heavyshield’s works as well as the relics of the Middle Ages.
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We will consider what identity, artistic identity, and agency means relative to the world of art; in reference to both the contemporary and historical canons.
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Artwork discussed:
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Franco-Flemish, France (Saint-Omer or Thérouanne). Bestiary, part of a planned miscellany (folio 46v), ca. 1270.
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German. Reliquary Monstrance, 15th century. Copper-gilt, silver-gilt, glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.508a)
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Faye Heavyshield, Honor Cahokia, 2023
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Faye Heavyshield, i’ll know you when i see you, 2021
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Here, There, and Back Again: Barbara Chase-Riboud
09/2022 – 02/ 2023
Reflecting on Barbara Chase-Riboud's monumental sculpture retrospective, “Here, There, and Back Again: Barbara Chase-Riboud” will trace Chase-Riboud's journey as an artist and person. The artist, born and raised in the U.S, traveled around the world; exploring the avenues of western and global art. From Zanzibar to China to Paris, Chase-Riboud awakened to the global canon of art; African tribal masks, Chinese jade suits, medieval methods. What does it mean to embrace the world's art; how does that transform an artist and their work?
Reflecting on the artists's life journeys and mimicking her travels through work, we will echo Barbara’s own global awakening to a greater canon of art and history.
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Artwork discussed:
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Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #19, 2017
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Mao’s Organ, 2008
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Cleopatra’s Cape, 1973
